Vientiane Yunnan holds a hearing on the reform plan for the high school entrance examination
Is raising the score of sports aesthetic education back to the old way of taking exams
The reform of the senior high school entrance examination in Yunnan has once again become a hot spot for parents.
On October 28th, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education held a hearing on the sports, music and art examination plan for junior high school students in Yunnan.
The draft of the hearing shows that the scores of students entering the middle school entrance examination in the fall of 2020 will be changed, and the scores of sports, music, and art will be greatly improved: sports will be increased from 50 points to 100 points, and music and art scores will increase from 5 points each. To each 20 minutes.
Let the students compare themselves
In response to this new plan this year, the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education successively went to Kunming, Pu'er, Dali, Nujiang, Diqing and other places to investigate and conduct special skills tests, and solicit opinions from 16 prefectural and municipal education and sports bureaus, some junior high schools and universities. More than 30 seminars and demonstration meetings were held to demonstrate the test format, score distribution, test frequency, test content, handling methods for special candidates, and conversion points for competition results.
According to the draft for comments, the physical examination has changed from a single examination of students' physical fitness to four items: basic physical fitness test, special skill test, physical fitness monitoring and competition bonus points.
In order to reduce the influence of individual congenital factors, the examination has been changed from the original three-year test to the one-year test, using two methods: "always test" and "timed test".
Students can make appointments with teachers at any time according to their physical conditions, and can also participate in the school's regular examinations; each school year, the school monitors students' height, body mass index, vital capacity, body mass index, and vision once, and assigns points according to the longitudinal comparison of the test scores of the three years of junior high school .
"Let students compare themselves with themselves, and through hard work, the relevant indicators will get better and they will get corresponding points."
Music and art exams include three items: quality assessment, unified exam and practical activities. The assessment time is arranged in the first semester of grades 7 to 9 and is arranged by the school; the unified exam time of the education department is the second semester of grade 9.
"The new plan focuses on the process of examinations and avoids the need to determine the results." Zhang Chunhua, deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education, said that the results of students participating in sports competitions and artistic practice activities are included in the scope of the examination. The purpose is to encourage students to actively participate in various projects. Sports competitions and aesthetic education performances are used to guide students to learn one or two lifelong motor skills and aesthetic education skills.
For this reason, the extra points part of the competition has set up a number of major items, so that tall, short, fat and thin students have the opportunity to participate in the competition; the education department regularly announces the second-year art exhibition plan every year, and each school organizes students to participate in the competition. Everyone participates.
In addition, the draft also pays special attention to students with physical disabilities and illnesses. These students can apply for a three-year exemption from the exam. Their sports scores for the year are calculated at 60% of the candidate's grade average.
"This reform is an optimization and improvement on the basis of the previous examination system, rather than overthrowing and starting over." Zhang Chunhua said.
There should be three voices in the school
According to Yang Chengdong, a member of the National Primary and Secondary School Sports Steering Committee and a physical education teacher in Chuxiong No. 1 Middle School in Yunnan, the extra points in the competition are a highlight of this reform.
In his 30-year teaching career, he has led the students of the school football team to participate in various competitions in Yunnan and the whole country, with fruitful results.
"The team has cultivated the ability of students to unite and cooperate." He said that there are successes and failures in the game. Companions fight together, cry together, feel sad and excited together, share the joy of success together, and bear the pain of failure together.
They are good at competition, like competition, and at the same time can cooperate with others in competition; find gaps and deficiencies in setbacks, and continue to work hard to train.
Over the years, Yang Chengdong has discovered among his students that children with specialties in sports will go further. They use the spirit of hard work in their studies and have achieved excellent academic results.
"In recent years, many of my team members have been admitted to Beijing Normal University, Hohai University, Beijing Sport University and other schools with a score of 600 or more in the college entrance examination." He said.
The hearing representative and coach of the Chinese Paralympic Swimming Team, Xiong Xiaoming, won three Olympic gold medals.
He was concerned about the 200-meter swimming among the selected items in the basic physical fitness test in the draft for comments.
"200 meters is a very necessary, practical and scientific distance." He said that many swimming training courses use 25 meters as a sign of mastering swimming skills, and 12 to 16 lessons are over.
But from a professional point of view, 200 meters can only master and improve swimming skills.
As students drown accidentally every winter and summer vacations, the school will ask parents to sign a letter of commitment before the holidays, allowing parents to take the responsibility of guarding the children's safety.
In Xiong Xiaoming’s view, on the one hand, parents should bear the responsibility of guardianship. On the other hand, schools should also teach children swimming skills. Although most schools do not have swimming pools, they can cooperate with outside units to offer swimming lessons in public or university swimming pools. "To let children learn to swim 200 meters is responsible for the lives of students and the society."
Wang Ling, the head of the teaching and research group of the High School Affiliated to Yunnan University, who has been engaged in music education for 25 years, believes that the "process evaluation" of students is also a highlight in the draft.
In her view, process evaluation not only allows teachers to discover the shining points of students, but also allows students to feel the beauty of art during the learning process. Art is a group activity that can reflect the function of mutual assistance and generate positive The role of mutual infection, mutual companionship, and mutual support allows young people to vent their emotions and encourage themselves.
In this regard, Deng Guohui, a physical education teacher at the Third Middle School of Mengzi City, also feels the same.
He said: "There should be three kinds of sounds in schools: singing on the campus, screaming on the sports field, and reading in the classroom. This is the campus scene that the reform of the entrance examination should see."
Will physical education be a recitation class for exams?
Before the hearing, Zhu Yanfang, a music teacher from Changkou Middle School in Wuhua District, Kunming, did a small survey in class, and the students' answers were beyond her surprise.
"Before it was not difficult to score 5 points for music and art. After you increase it to 20 points, will you have to memorize a lot?"
Li Qi, deputy to the Yunnan Provincial People's Congress, raised the same question at the hearing.
Will the increase in sports music and art scores give birth to sports aesthetic education for the purpose of examination?
Li Hongyan, principal of Fuyuan Shengjing Middle School in Qujing City, also expressed concern.
He found that many students scored full marks for volleyball in the physical education entrance examination for high school, but could not serve.
"This is precisely caused by the utilitarian nature of the examination."
He said, “The phenomenon of taking exams may obliterate children’s interest in sports art.”
It is the parents who are more anxious.
"Children have become test sites all over the body", "Do you want to apply for a cram school again", "Basketball, football, volleyball and martial arts are not good, prepare to hire a personal tutor" "Will reform increase the burden on parents and children"... Knowledge has changed the destiny, and the baby’s tuition has reduced the standard of living." In the view of parents, sports, music, and fine arts require talent.
"In contrast, it is better to read and learn English, so you can get points quickly and efficiently."
Zhang Chunhua said that this is exactly the pain point and difficulty of the reform of sports and aesthetic education in the country and Yunnan. The reform is not to increase the burden on students and to participate in training outside the school. Means, let the school pay more attention to sports aesthetic education, and enhance the status of sports aesthetic education by increasing the score."
The reform of high school entrance examination should consider the current situation of rural schools
The reporter noted that another focus of this hearing and the public's attention is that "the reform of the senior high school entrance examination should consider the current situation of rural schools, and should not cause new educational inequities."
"'Chinese is taught by a physical education teacher, and physical education is taught by a math teacher.' These funny "stalks" are really real in rural areas." said a staff member of the Yunnan Youth Foundation.
At present, many rural schools in Yunnan lack physical education teachers. Since 2012, the Yunnan Youth Foundation has relied on the "Yao Foundation Hope Primary School Basketball Season Charity Project" and cooperated with the School of Physical Education of Yunnan Normal University to send college student volunteers to 15 counties in the province every year. 23 Hope Primary Schools support teaching, teach children to play basketball, and form teams to participate in the poverty-stricken areas through physical education.
This year, in response to the uneven cement hardened ground in the sports playgrounds of some rural schools, the Yunnan Youth Foundation initiated a project to assist in the construction of the "Hope Playground". The funds raised will be used to improve the sports conditions of rural schools and provide rural Provide a safe sports environment for young people.
At the hearing, Gao Fuying, the principal of Xishan School of Kunming No. 1 Middle School, pointed out that in the specific implementation process of the plan, the lack of sports venues, inadequate teaching staff, and differences in teacher quality in rural schools in different regions should be taken into account, and the teachers should be strengthened. Intensify the training efforts, increase the renovation and expansion of the venue, and add sports and aesthetics equipment.
Zhu Yanfang also pointed out that the current new plan still needs to be refined so that the implementation can be more operable.
"Children in rural areas cannot compare with children in cities. They have no conditions to learn piano, violin and other musical instruments." She said, but many children in ethnic minority areas "can talk and sing, and walk and dance." There is no professional vocal training and music instruction, but the simple, vigorous and unpretentious singing and dancing are "really a pleasure."
She believes that the new plan should take care of local education and develop local aesthetic education textbooks, which not only stimulates students' enthusiasm for learning, but also inherits national culture, and explores a growth path that is in line with the comprehensive development of rural students' moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic.
It is worth noting that in the draft for comments, some items of the physical examination can be selected for testing; the social art level examination and various art activities organized by social institutions will not be used as the content of the music and art examination for students; students participate in unplanned performances The award-winning scores won are not included in the scores of music practice activities, and are formulated for the current situation of rural schools.
"We will carefully sort out the hearing opinions, revise and improve the draft for soliciting comments, so that the final released plan will take care of the wishes of all sectors of society as much as possible." Zhang Chunhua said.
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Zhang Wenling Source: China Youth Daily